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ASTRODOME
Opened in 1965 in Houston, it was nicknamed the Eighth Wonder of the World, and it was the first major indoor stadium with a domed roof.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
KING
Billie Jean King won the match 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, and she had already helped start the women's professional tour that same year.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
RIGGS
Bobby Riggs won Wimbledon in 1939, and he had beaten Margaret Court on Mother's Day 1973 before facing King.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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A battle of the sexes word search, free and printable, set in the Houston Astrodome on a September night in 1973. King against Riggs.

About The Battle of the Sexes

On September 20, 1973, Billie Jean King was carried into the Houston Astrodome on a litter by men dressed as ancient slaves, while Bobby Riggs rolled in on a rickshaw. Riggs was a 55-year-old former Wimbledon champion who had loudly claimed that no woman could beat him. She was 29, and she won in straight sets, with some thirty thousand people in the building and tens of millions more at home watching on ABC.

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